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How Labor Day Got Respectable · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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there's this interesting kind of inversion where May Day became more
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associated with socialists and anarchists,
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, September 7th, Labor Day.
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and Labor Day became more of the American labor holiday, the respectable holiday.
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That's from America's Workforce Radio on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org.
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We'll have a longer exploration of that history on the Labor Radio Podcast
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weekly today at two o'clock as part of WPFW's Labor Day programming.
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Today's Labor Arts calendar is jam-packed, as you'd expect on Labor
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Day, including the DC Labor Chorus Labor Day Sing-Along from two to four
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at The New Deal Cafe in Greenbelt.
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Complete details at laborheritage.org, In today's labor history, Labor Day
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became a federal holiday in eighteen ninety-four, shortly after President
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Grover Cleveland sent federal forces to crush the Pullman Strike.
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Facing widespread outrage, Cleveland quickly signed the
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unanimously approved legislation.
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Today's labor quote Is by Si Kahn from his song "Were You There?", performed
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by George Mann on their Labor Day album
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Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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More information at unionplus.org.
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This has been Chris Carlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Happy Labor Day, everybody